Thank you for listening.

And you can hopefully read all about it in the National newspaper next Tuesday. 📰

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Definitely - wind up very important transition for the new towns. Planning in the new towns always flexible and adaptable to respond to economic change. But arguably less of a holistic vision for the towns when they came under the control of larger local authorities. (End of Strathclyde Region too)

There's definitely a story to be told! We've argued that some people actively chose to 'remake themselves' in the new towns (many people interviewed at the time said they'd 'bettered themselves'). May explain changing voting behaviour too.

Also plenty of anecdotal evidence of early support for independence in Cumbernauld especially - we didn't focus on this but that story is waiting to be told!

We consider some of these issues (though not from an energy perspective) in our book on the new towns in Scotland. (An early leader in motorway suburbia despite the original intentions? Early adoption of car dependent large scale private housing?) Had to plug - it's free to download